Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 321

The Eternal

Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.

You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.

If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.

The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.

Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A town happy to say its name twice, then dreams tied up and happy at the dock.
Side A points at the same corner until it smiles back, leaves a Sylvian junction open on every side, blows a gemstone rather than cutting it, scores the nights drawing in with a title that has not quite arrived, fills its eyes with moss and lets the ground read along, and finds a lost horizon again at whisper volume. Side B keeps the root when the other two panels have bowed, holds distant blue on a spine with both names, touches the sea once and keeps the salt, draws a bath for someone very small, paginates an inland ocean so you can stop at the paragraph, and moors its dreams with the rope left slack.
Overall mood: Gentle, slightly elegiac, and quietly domestic — full of repeating towns, unlit next rooms, and water that agrees to stay inland. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that have agreed to be smaller, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: a town happy to say its name twice, a junction in the brain, a flute sent out to sea, a score for the nights drawing in, a burial with moss for eyes, a horizon found again at whisper volume.

00:02:19 Nonturn – Indicate
https://nonturn.bandcamp.com/track/indicate
Album: Repeating Town. Label: Audiobulb
Pointing at the same corner until the corner smiles back. Audiobulb letting the loop finish itself.
00:07:39 HDRF – The Sylvian Intersection
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/hdrf-the-sylvian-intersection
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which isn’t enough. I Heart Noise leaving the turning open on every side.
00:08:34 Kirk Monteux Mysoftmusic – Flute Ocean Peace
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/kirk-monteux-mysoftmusic-flute-ocean-peace
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
A gemstone from the seventh tray, blown rather than cut. Cyclical Dreams holding the tide at a polite distance.
00:12:55 Oceanographer – The Eternal
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/
Album: Orctalox. Label: Bricolage
Shimmering and cloudy, sprawling and compact, bright and fading. A score for the nights drawing in. Title of the hour. Pre-order from the 9th, the record itself on the 23rd.
00:18:55 Grey Malkin – Burial Song
https://fennycompton.bandcamp.com/track/burial-song
Album: Label: Fenny Compton, Woodford Halse
Our eyes filled with moss, the ground reading along in a kind voice. Fenny Compton keeping the hymn in the shed.
00:20:06 midorinozu – quiet spectrum
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-spectrum
Album: lost horizons. Label: Home Normal
Lost horizons, found again at a volume the house can sleep beside. Home Normal leaving the lights on in the next room.

Mood mist: a root under a painting in three panels, blue far enough to keep its name, a sea touched once and remembered, a bath drawn for someone very small, an ocean that lives inland, dreams tied up and happy at the dock.

00:26:53 ambalek – Root
https://ambalek.bandcamp.com/track/root
Album: Triptych. Label: Oskar Karlström
The panel that stays when the other two have bowed. The thing under the thing.
00:31:16 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Distant Blue
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/distant-blue
Album: Night’s End. Label: Home Normal
The colour of a window still deciding to be morning. Home Normal keeping both names on the spine.
00:35:16 Nanováros – I Touched the Sea Once
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/i-touched-the-sea-once
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the hand, salt and all, as a keepsake.
00:40:07 Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Bathtime
https://guestbartenderdeborahtoyota.bandcamp.com/track/bathtime
Album: Music for Babies. Label: Mystery Circles
Music for babies, which is to say music for the hour when the house agrees to be smaller. Mystery Circles running the tap very quietly.
00:42:21 Eric Angelo Bessel – Chapter
https://lorecity.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-an-inland-ocean
Album: Illusion of an Inland Ocean. Label: Lore City Music
An illusion of an inland ocean, paginated. Lore City letting you stop at the end of the paragraph and not the coast.
00:45:44 Almost Random – Dreams moor at that Dock
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/dreams-moor-at-that-dock
Album: Fragments From the Waning World [CYD 0163]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Fragments from the waning world, tied up, not planning to sail. Cyclical Dreams leaving the rope slack.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 318.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.